Ubuntu – How to move both panels to the bottom in GNOME

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As everyone will know, in Ubuntu GNOME by default there is a panel at the top of the screen with a set of menus and icons and also one at the bottom with the window list etc.

What I wanted to do was move both of these to the bottom , with the window list and the absolute bottom of the screen and the other panel just above it.

So I set the alignment of both panels to 'bottom' but this made the window list panel the highest up panel.

I fixed this by manually moving everything between the panels and swapping it over which was fine , until I restarted my computer which resulted in them being swapped back over , so the window list is now above the other panel.

Is there a way to permanently set the window list to be the bottom?

Best Answer

With both panels at the bottom try this:

  1. Push Alt + F2 and type gconf-editor

  2. Navigate to /apps/panel/general

  3. In the list on the right side, double-click on the toplevel_id_list item

  4. Switch the two items using the Up/Down buttons (in my case I switched from bottom_panel_screen0 top_panel_screen0 to top_panel_screen0 bottom_panel_screen0):

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  5. Close the gconf-editor, log out and back in again.

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